Phil Esposito’s Rampage On The NHL Record Book
Although many of his offensive records have now been left in the dust by Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, former Boston Bruins/New York Rangers center Phil Esposito is still regarded by hockey experts as one of the greatest players in NHL history. He’s forever enshrined in hockey’s hall of fame along with brother, goaltender Tony Esposito.
A native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Esposito was signed by the Chicago Blackhawks as a teenager. After some time in junior hockey, he was called up to the NHL in’64 quickly earning a spot on the teams top line between Bobby Hull and Marcel Dionne. In’67, Esposito was traded to the Boston Bruins along with Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield.
It wasnt long before Esposito started to destroy long standing NHL records. In’69, he became the first NHL player to top the 100 point mark (combined goals and assists) for the season”he obliterated the record with 126 points, which would be the first of six times that hed top the century mark. He topped 100 points in five straight seasons between’71 and’75, missing a sixth straight season by a single point with 99 in’70. Bruins fans were fond of displaying car bumper stickers that read Jesus Saves; Esposito scores on the rebound.
UFC 85 Flashback: Alves, Bisping Win
A day after failing to make weight for his fight against Matt Hughes, Thiago Alves dominated the former UFC welterweight champion en route to a 2nd round TKO victory. The main event at UFC 85 in London was somewhat anticlimactic to the fans at the O2 Arena who considered the semifinal matchup between Manchesters Michael Bisping and Jason Day the biggest fight on the card. Bisping actually improved upon his excellent showing against Charles McCarthy at UFC 83 and pummeled Day mercilessly from the top mount position until the fight was stopped just past the 3 minute mark of the first round.
Hughes didnt make any excuses following his one sided loss, saying simply that hes a good fighter and he got me. The longtime king of the UFCs welterweight division also gave notice that his career as an active fighter was drawing to a close, suggesting that he had one fight left and challenging Matt Serra in what presumably would be his retirement match. Hughes had no answer for Alves from the opening horn, as he was stuffed on several takedown attempts early on. When he did finally get his opponent to the ground he was unable to do much damage. Alves, conversely, scored effectively with his striking including several damaging knee strikes. He also did considerable work on the ground, with an elbow strike opening up a large cut on Hughes forehead. Though he didnt get to his knees a la Georges St. Pierre, Alves did make a plea to Dana White for a title shot. His failure to make weight wont help his cause, however, and judging from the UFC Presidents incredulous smirk in response that opportunity wont be immediately forthcoming.
The end came early in the 2nd round as Hughes was caught coming in by a devastating knee strike. He fell to the canvas in a heap and referee Herb Dean was jumping in to stop the contest before Alves could follow up with any punches.
Chad Henne Steps Up for the Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are coming of one of the greatest one season turn around’s in NFL history, 1-15 in 07′, 11-5 in 08′ with a AFC East Division title. Things seem a bit different so far this year.
The 09′ season for the Miami Dolphins has been nothing like 08′. Statistically, Chad Pennington is the most accurate passer of all-time. While he might not have the “big arm”, he finds his receivers when they are open.
With Chad Pennington out the rest of the season, the Dolphins season seems to be over before it really began. It’s hard to win in the NFL when you have uncertainties at the QB position.
Things looked promising for 2009, until the Dolphins lost their first three games. Things looked even worse, when during their third game, the team lost Pennington for the season.
Hasselbeck Out For Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks seem to be poised for a bounce back year, following a disappointing 2008 campaign that saw the team finish with a losing record. They’ve made some changes; most importantly their new head coach Jim Mora.
Much of the reason for the team’s horrible 2008 season can be assigned to the fact that Matt Hasselbeck, the team’s long time quarterback, was lost for much of the season due to injury. Doesn’t look like he’ll be able to stay healthy throughout this season either.
Matt Hasselback has played ok but suffered a rib injury. It is yet to be determined if this will be a lingering injury that will hurt his entire 09′ season. If the team expects to improve on their 4-12 season, Hasselback must start more then 7 games, as he did in 08′.
Future Book Betting Traps And How To Avoid Them
Sports book futures bets are an increasing popular and potentially profitable way to wager on the outcome of a full season. There’s a few common mistakes that novice players make that can be easily avoided by paying attention to the following:
You gotta shop around: More specifically, you have to ’shop points’ just as you would with a straight bet. This is crucial in all forms of sports betting but particularly key with futures wagers. There are often greater variances in the prices from book to book on future plays than any other type of wagering proposition. The reason for this is simple–most books are less concern with what the ‘other guys’ are doing as they are with keeping their own position ‘in balance’. All in all, the sports betting marketplace just doesn’t react as quickly to changing futures prices as it does to individual game lines.
Don’t fixate on picking the winner from a competitive field: This may sound like strange advice, but from a theoretical standpoint it makes perfect sense. As with every other element of sport wagering its crucial to always focus not on winners and losers, but on the value you’re getting on individual bets. For example, in most years there are several teams with a realistic shot of winning at the start of the NCAA basketball tournament. The problem is that these top teams invariably offer low paybacks that are less than their ‘true odds’ of winning. Every team is subject to the same variables like injuries, slumps, bad matchups but backing teams that are ‘under the radar’ at higher prices offer more compensation for these ‘risks’.
The Easy Way To Take Great Photos Is With The Canon Powershot SX200 Camera
The Canon Powreshot line of cameras give you quality and ease of use. These are the highest rated cameras by both professionals and amateurs. They are smart enough to help with many photography problems.
You can set the Smart Auto mode and everything you need to get a great picture is done for you. Select the Beach, Snow, Sports, portrait, or Night mode and the camera through it’s pre-programming will do all of the work for you. Your perfect results are easy.
You can set the camera for Manual and choose all of your own effects for your shots. This gives you the choice of simple shooting or more complex photography making this one of the best cameras on the market today.
Pittsburgh Tops Cleveland For 12th Consecutive Time
The Pittsburgh Steelers have been playing the Cleveland Browns for longer than any other team in the National Football League, dating back to 1950. And while it hasn’t been quite that long since the Cleveland Browns won a game against the Steelers it may be starting to feel like it. On Sunday, Pittsburgh won for the twelfth straight time dating back to 2003 as they topped Cleveland by a final score of 27-13. The defending Superbowl champions improved to 4-2 while the Browns fell to 1-5.
The good news for NFL betting enthusiasts who took the +13′ with the Browns as a road underdog is that they managed to cover the pointspread by the slimmest of possible margins. Betting against the defending Superbowl champion is a long standing handicapping concept, and this season at least its worked like a charm-the Steelers have only covered one of their first six games. Cleveland, meanwhile, evened their NFL pointspread record at 3-3 on the season. The Browns have covered three straight after dropping their first three both straight up and against the spread. The 40 combined points went OVER the posted total of 37′. Pittsburgh has now gone OVER in four straight after starting the season with two UNDERs while the Browns evened their NFL totals mark at 3-3.
Pittsburgh dominated the game in virtually every statistical category. They amassed 28 first downs to 12 for Cleveland, held a 543 to 197 total yardage advantage and a 36:46 to 23:14 time of possession advantage. Most of the post game talk from both sides was about a controversial spot in the first half where the Steelers were given a first down on a short yardage play when it appeared that they didn’t make the required yardage.
Leisure Sports; Golf and Clay Pigeon Shooting
We all need a good hobby to take our minds off the day to day stresses and hassles of work. We need downtime to relax and to allow ourselves to recharge our batteries. It is important to take this time out otherwise you risk burn out, a breakdown or worse. Two popular sports popular for this purpose are clay pigeon shooting and golf.
One difference between the two sports (aside from the obvious) is the level of physical fitness that’s required in order to play golf at a reasonable standard. The swing of the club and the hitting of the ball requires a reasonable amount of effort and it can become quite tiresome keeping it up round the whole course. Shooting does require some physical strength as you will have to hold the gun up and follow the clay with it until you pull the trigger, but there is generally less effort involved in shooting so if you have any inherent injuries they’re more likely to affect your golf than your shooting.
Another big different is the time it takes to complete a round of golf compared to going round a clay pigeon shoot. 18 holes of golf takes around 3 hours but to go round a clay pigeon shoot will only take between 1 and 2 even if you shoot up to 100 clays. So where clay pigeon shooting can be done in a couple of hours you generally have to set aside half of the day to take part of to practice.
Facts about history of poker
Poker has evolved over more than ten centuries from a lot of games. The key principals of ranked card, domino combinations and bluffing are somehow used in the game.
A game similar to poker is believed to have been invented in China in 969 AD. The game used to be played by the royals. There have been instances where it was played by the emperor also. It is said to be the first form of poker
A game similar to poker was also played by the Egyptians in the 12th centuries. It was known as Ganjifa. This game consisted of 96 cards made of thin slices of wood. The Persians are also said to have played a similar game consisting of 25 cards.
The Spanish are also said to have played a game primero which had some features similar to the modern day poker. This game later spread among the French and the Germans. Primero and its French version had the bluffing feature in them.
Watch UFC 103 Live
UFC 103 is set live stream on mmavines.com on September 19, 2009. It is working to be a good match between Junior Dos Santos versus Mirko Crocop. They are bold veteran MMA fighters with a fairly amazing account in the UFC. Which Dos Santos comes into the struggle with a record of 27 victories, four losses, and zero draws. Crocop comes into the UFC 103 Arena with a record of 12 wins and five losses.
This should be a good struggle as their manners match up pretty well with each different. I would give the edge to Mirko Crocop just because it seems like he’s on more of a winning streak and appears to have more self-confidence coming to the struggle. Vitor has not fought in the UFC since 2005 and lost to Tito Ortiz in a split decision. His previous 5 before that any of discover was another exit to Randy Couture with a TKO stoppage.
Mirko Crocop just recently came back to the UFC after an large since fighting other arrangements and his last actual scrap had a great fight against Matt Lindlin. Vitor knockout Matt in the first round would really boost his confidence in his fight against Junior Dos Santos.